Kennedy Trip Catch up

My poor blog! It's never suffered such a lack-of-posting before! I know it feels neglected. Here's the skinny, if you haven't heard by now - we hastily moved out of Hugo house and into Willow because of a squirrel. We moved quicker than we thought, really - and had no internet at the Willow house. This makes posting very difficult of course. Then on October 5th...5 members of my family came for a vacation. It was fun, and busy - and of course it's hard to find the time to post things when you don't have much "down time" - for trying to cram in lots of family time/visiting. (We got internet on Oct 8th...yay) We had a blast with everyone! We made a whirl wind trip to DC for a Skins/Bears game, and said goodbye!

So now it's time for picture overload:-) I'll probably try to break it up over a few posts, and things will not necessarily be in the order they occurred, but at least they are documented!

Well, something fun we did...we (my mom & I) surprised everyone with tickets to the Zac Brown Band. It rained pretty much the whole first week they were here, and we were very lucky that it stopped on Saturday...but the ground was very saturated, and we had lawn seats!

We got a little wet, but we had fun! We ate at Jimmy John's on the way over to the amphitheater, and it was not only their first time to have Jimmy John's (not in Canada), but my first time too!

Maryn & Jillaine

Lehman, Dad & Brian

Waiting for the concert to start...and all the people to arrive - it was a sold out show, and the lawn was not empty like this for long!

We did a full Thanksgiving meal on Monday for Canadian Thanksgiving - Dale & Lauren joined us, and I neglected to get a single picture:-/ It was delicious!! This time of year, I couldn't find a turkey big enough for us all, so I got two 9.5lb ones:-)

Soccer! It was picture day too, so we had lots of time at the field. It rained a little during Grey's game, but he was a champ! Showing off all his best moves for Grandma & Grandpa!

Pull that hair!

Does he look like Uncle Lehman now?

 

A "zerpert" - blowing onto someones cheek.

Brian took my siblings to Sandbridge Beach one day. They buried Lehman, and I joked that they should have made him a mermaid, complete with boobs, haha!!

Oops, back to soccer! Brooks and Kenna played very well! We got to see quite a few good moves and plays by each of them

 

The weather was nice, when it wasn't raining:-) They got to swim in the ocean from 3 different locations...East Beach (2x), Virginia Beach and Sandbridge Beach!

I'll post about DC in a separate post -

Beach in October

It finally stopped raining! Soooo...off to the beach we go again!

I guess we weren't sure which direction we were heading:-)

Kennedy family at VA Beach!

Sonny asked Jillaine if my Dad was his real Grandpa. We decided that Sonny's "fake Grandpa" could be called Faux-pa. Haha!!

getting wet...with no swimsuits:-)

wavy, foamy water

Grey got knocked down and rolled around by some big waves:-)

Maryn & Lehman are my youngest siblings

My youngest brother, Lehman (15 years old)

Brooks (6 years old)

Kenna (7 years old)

One of my sisters, Jillaine (17 years old)

Sonny & Grey are best buds (both 3 years old)

Grandpa and Grandma with 3 of their 11 grandkids:-)...the only born-American members of the Canadian Kennedy family!

How cute is that?!

Pics

Since my Dad is here...it's music time! I borrowed a guitar from a friend so we could play and sing together...

It's nice and loud right here:-)

Kenna found a moth with a broken wing, and she tried to nurse it back to health. I'm pretty sure this "helping" actually drove the thing to the grave much much faster than nature would have:-)

My brother Lehman is 15...and a bit of a fave amongst the rowdy boys (Brooks, Grey & Sonny). There is lots of "warring" going on here:-)

This is a funny bit of music. Trying to get Lehman to do the cups for more than a minute

Animal Jungle

Alrighty! We now have internet at Willow house, yay! AND, some of my family is here, and we've been having a good time so far. Posted a few Instagram pics, but mainly I've been too busy having fun to take pics, haha!! Making up for it today...


May's birthday! She's two now! We went out to Animal Jungle, and then for pizza at lunch

A random parrot, Brooks and May

All the kids got to hold the medium sized parrots and cockatiels,, it was pretty cool!

Brooks was nervous to go in at first, but was very brave!

some turtles, and that's a sting ray under them!

Lehman & Maryn, my 15 & 13 year old siblings:-)

Sonny holding a BIG one, like Nigel, in Rio:-)

Fun Times Ahead

Alright, my apologies. I am not abandoning my blog, I promise! I am posting this post...from my phone. Which, while possible, is not really ideal. Plus, blogger is giving me fits, and won't let me update my kids quotes! I've got it written down and will get it on there as soon as I'm able.

BIG NEWS: we are getting internet at Willow on Tues!! Then I will be catching you up with all the posts I have in my head. Living with no internet has been interesting...it's been over 2 weeks since we've been here full time, and its amazing how dependent we are on the internet! Thankfully my phone can handle internet "emergencies". It just takes an eternity to type/Swype it all out!  I've found myself twice now, with my computer in the McDonald's parking lot, using their signal to pay bills and stuff. And trying to explain to the kids why we aren't getting French fries :-)  so getting internet is big news to me.

OTHER BIG NEWS: I'm starting to work from home for elite elder care. I've been doing their payroll for years, but now am more of a real secretary.

AND MORE: My parents and my 3 youngest siblings are coming tomorrow!!! So excited!

So please hang tight, I will be back to posting lots, really soon! I'm all swyped and auto corrected out right now, so I'm signing  off :-)